Saturday, April 30, 2016

Must have been one hell of an "L drill"

Bell and Payton built a rapport around a simple request. New Orleans
coaches had dinner with Bell and some of his OSU’s teammates at pro day
and worked him out privately, but Bell’s decision to forego some drills
left the Saints with a hole in their evaluation.

Payton called Bell to ask for videos of the drills — the “L” drill,
the pro shuttle, the 60-yard shuttle and his vertical leap — and he
responded in a matter of days, texting all the videos to the coach.

“It was important to me,” Payton said.

“I said to him, when we drafted him, if you hadn’t gotten me those
videos, you’d still be sitting at home eating nachos right now.”